![]() She taught organization and management, public and comparative administration, political ideologies, and health care and public policy courses. She also championed the needs and interests of newly hired, younger female faculty. ![]() Professor Merkle was one of a small cohort of women faculty hired in the 1980s who mentored the rapidly rising number of female undergraduates. She is remembered as one of its most consummately attentive and successful teachers. She became the department's first tenured woman member. ![]() She joined the college, formerly Claremont Men's College, in 1982, the year after it became fully coeducational and changed its name to Claremont McKenna College. She taught under her maiden name, Judith Merkle, in the Claremont McKenna College government department from 1982 to 2005. ![]() ![]() Judith Merkle Riley, longtime professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and bestselling novelist under her married name, Judith Merkle Riley, died at her home in Claremont, California, on September 12, 2010, of cancer. ![]()
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